Sources of Western Zhou History
Subtitle: Inscribed Bronze Vessels
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: January 8, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780520070288
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; To 221 B.C; History; China - History; Historiography; Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C.; History - General History; Sources; History: World; Ancient World; China; Ancient - General; Asia - China; History / General; Bronzes, Chinese; Zhou dynasty, 1122-221 B.C; Inscriptions, Chinese
First sentence: The remarkable discoveries of Western Zhou bronze inscriptions in the last decade, of which the Wei family cache at Fufeng is just one example, have excited new interest in this branch of Chinese paleography and have enabled great advances to be made in the study of Western Zhou history.